"It took two years to wipe out 8.7 million American jobs but more than four years to gain them all back," writes Annalyn Kurtz at Forbes, noting that this means that the economy has replaced the jobs lost in the Great Recession. "...With that job growth, there are now more jobs in the country than ever before."

The first months of 2014 were plagued with lower job numbers, which some economists attributed to the weather. The Labor Department revised March and April's reports downward by 6,000 jobs net, according to the commissioner's statement, but job gains still averaged 234,000 per month for the past three months.

"That suggests the first quarter was an anomaly in terms of what the economy was and we are back to a decent pace of job creation. Overall it's a pretty solid report," says John Canally, an economist at LPL Financial in Boston, in an interview with Reuters.